Ashton Kutcher,a former model,rose to fame in Hollywood by playing a handsome ditz in Dude,Wheres My Car? and on That 70s Show. But,he is no dummy when it comes to technology. In recent years,he has become a smart early investor in some of the most talked-about Internet start-ups,including Foursquare,the mobile social network; Path,a photo-sharing application; and Flipboard,a news-reading app for the iPad. He was also a part of a group of investors that bought into the Internet calling service Skype in 2009 in a deal that valued it at $2.75 billion. Last month,Microsoft agreed to buy Skype for more than three times that amount. Kutcher is the most prominent entertainment figure in the high-tech venture capital game. Kellan Lutz is famous around the worldor at least among teenage girls the world overas vampire Emmet Cullen,the older brother of Edward (Robert Pattinson) in Twilight and its sequels. Now,he is exploring his human side with his first romantic comedy,Love,Wedding,Marriage,set to open nationwide in June. Mandy Moore plays a newlywed marriage counsellor so preoccupied with trying to fix her parents broken marriage that she ignores her own,with Lutz as her neglected husband.Before Twilight came along,Lutz worked in TV appearing on shows such as The Bold and the Beautiful and The Comeback. In addition to the two Breaking Dawn films,he has completed the action filmsThe Killing Game and Immortals,as well as A Warriors Heart. Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides,the fourth film in this series from Walt Disney Studios,recorded $346.4 million in worldwide ticket sales. The film has posted $90.1 million in domestic ticket sales since its opening in the US,making it the top-ranked film in North America for the weekend. It has reached a total of $256.3 million in sales in foreign theatres including $52.6 million from Russia,India and China. That exceeded what Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End,the previous movie in the series,took from those markets during its entire run after its release in 2007,Disney said. The current Pirates,was released in both 3-D and conventional formats.
